Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. He is the author of four best-selling books: “Complications,” a finalist for the National Book Award; “Better,” selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; “The Checklist Manifesto”; and “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.” He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, two National Magazine Awards, and AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on health care. In 2018, he was named the C.E.O. of an independent health-care venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to deliver solutions for better outcomes, satisfaction, and costs of care. He continues in his work as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston. He is also a part-time professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. He is the chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health-systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally.

Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?

November 5, 2018

Regarding people as having lives of equal worth means recognizing each as having a common core of humanity. To see this humanity requires a willingness to ask people what it’s like to be in their shoes.